Red-backed shrike

Plain and simple portrait of a male Red-backed Shrike.

Hope you like it.
Mark III / 500 + 1.7 TC

f 7.1 / 1/800 sec / ISO 800
- 2/3 exp. comp.

A very striking shot of a beautiful bird. Beautiful background too. I think you might do better by cropping off some of the top.

Sweet capture! It's so sharp. did you use a tripod for this shot? Gorgeous.

Sharna

Really beautiful textured and colored image. I might just get rid of what seems to be a little poop on the log...

Chris Zink

Hi Rosl,
As you said, a nice simple portrait. Nice detail and I like the angle of him looking back over the perch. I would clone out the white wash on the perch and maybe take a bit more off the top.
Steve

Lovely image, great pose and eye contact, I visited your personal web page, but I don't speak German! ha ha ha

Nice composition,colors and details!

Beautiful bird with excellent sharpness and exposure (exposure compensation was just right). Nice catchlight in the eye. BG is very pretty. Agree about cropping some from the top and also removing the white stuff from the perch. Thanks for posting!

Hi to all,
thank you for commenting my image!
If you would cropp a bit from the top; would you give up the original format, and cropp only from the top?
I was thinking about some cropping but did not want to crop anything from the right or from the left.
Would you?

I'd crop it about like this.